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'Comfort' Issue Makes Japanese Politician Squirm

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May 31, 2013
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From time to time, conservative Japanese politicians get into trouble by denying that Imperial Japan forced women of occupied countries, known euphemistically as “comfort women,” to work in military brothels serving Japanese troops during World War II.

Nobody however has managed to get into as much hot water over this issue as Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto,…

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